CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER III. 



Magnificence and money — "Waterton's mode of life and personal ex- 

 penses — Sleeping on planks — His visits to the chapel — The " morning 

 gun " — The razor and the lancet — Reduction of the family estates — 

 His work at "Walton Hall — Natural advantages of the place — The 

 wall and its cost — Bargees and their guns — Instinct of the herons — 

 Herons and fish-ponds — Drainage of the ponds — The moat extended 

 into a lake-— Old Gateway and Ivy-Tower — Siege by Oliver Crom- 

 well^Tradition of a musket-baU — Drawbridge and gateway in the 

 olden times — Tradition of a canon-baU — Both ball and canon dis- 

 covered — Sunken plate and weapons —Echo at Walton Hall — "West 

 view of lake — -How to strengthen a bank — Pike-catching — Cats and 

 pike—Spot where Waterton fell 35—48 



CHAPTER rV. 



Love of trees — Preservation of damaged trees — How trees perish — 

 "Wind and rain — Self-restorative powers of the bark— Hidden foes 

 —The fimgus and its work — Use of the woodpecker and titmouse — 

 How to utUize tree-stumps — The cole titmouse — Owl-house and 

 seat — Dry-rot — "When to paint timber — Oaken gates of the old 

 tower — Command over trees — ^How to make the holly grow quickly 

 — The holly as a hedge-tree — Pheasant fortresses — Artificial 

 pheasants — The poachers outwitted — "Waterton's power of tree 

 cUmbing — An aerial study — Ascending and descending trees — 

 Church and State trees — The yew — A protection against cold winds 

 • — Yew hedge at back of gateway — The Starling Tower— Familiarity 

 of the birds — The Picnic or Grotto — "Waterton'fl /hospitality — " The 

 Squire " — A decayed mill and abandoned stone — The stone iiftf-*! 

 cfif the ground by a hazel nut 49 — 71 



CHAPTER V. 



The Squire's " dodges " — The " cat-holes " — The dove-cot — Pigeon-shoot- 

 ing matches and mode of supplyuig the birds — "Waterton's pigeon- 

 house, external and internal — Pigeon-stealers baflled — Arrangement 

 of pigeon-holes — Ladders not needed — How to feed pigeons econo- 

 mically — Rats and mice in the garden — The poison-bowl and its 

 Fafety — Sunken mousetrap — Gates and chains — The carriage-x^oud 

 — "VV'aterton's antipathy to scientific nomenclature — Advantage of 

 ruch nomenclature as an assistant to science — Popular and local 

 names — Colonists and their nomenclature — Zoology gone mad — 

 Complimentary nomenclature — The fatal accident in the park — 

 "Waterton's last moments and death — The last voyage and funeral 

 - Epitaph written by liimself — The new cross, and place of burial, 72- 



